It’s a statistic floated around by high-ranking police officers and Calgary’s new mayor — a relatively small number of people committing a whole lot of crime.

Ahead of a Calgary police downtown safety blitz Nov. 5, Supt. Scott Boyd said the police have a “high system user group that’s roughly around 75 individuals ... [who] do a disproportionate amount of crime on any given day throughout Calgary."

During his campaign, then-mayoral candidate Jeromy Farkas used a slightly different number, pledging in his platform to “strengthen community policing with a crackdown on Calgary’s top 100 repeat violent offenders.”

But who are they?

“High system user is a term that we have coined for individuals who statistically and factually have initiated literally hundreds of calls for service based

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